Available now from Comprehensible Classics: an organizer for student notes and translations to help prepare for the new AP Latin exam! This project began as a attempt to create a translation and notetaking organizer for my new AP Latin class. I wanted something that included more than just blank lines and blank space. Here are …
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New AP Latin Resource: Letter-by-Letter Vocabulary for Pliny
One of the best improvements to the new AP exam is the inclusion of a vocabulary list based on the most frequently occurring vocabulary in the required Vergil and Pliny texts. The complete is located in Appendix B of the AP Latin CED (Curriculum and Exam Description). The reason I love this new list is …
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Just Published: Darkness Over Pompeii
Announcing a new classroom resource for the revised 2025-26 AP Latin Exam! Contents include: Pliny’s love letters to his wife Calpurnia (Epistulae 6.4 and 6.7) The two letters to Tacitus detailing Pliny’s eyewitness account of the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder (Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20) Pliny’s …
Vocabula Conturbemus!
by Andrew Olimpi How do you introduce new vocabulary to your students? Do you have them memorize a list? Discuss a word cloud? Gamify it with Kahoot or Gimkit? Co-create a story? Heading into the third quarter of my twentieth year teaching, I felt like I was running out of tricks. My old pre-reading activities …
Activity: Discipulus Novus (New Student)
This is yet another variation on on Bryce Headstrom's La Persona Especial. It combines some of the goofy fun of the "Headbandz" game as a hook for student interest. Also, since I teach at a private school with small classes, student interviews only get me so far. So, first, using Sticky Notes (I know, high …
Hello. My name is Magister Olimpi. And I’m a Grammar Addict. (PART 1 OF ?)
I've been attending graduate school during the past few summers. Two summers ago, I had a conversation with a professor about the current "spoken Latin" movement among Latin teachers and enthusiasts. This professor was actually from Europe, and his question was simple: Why would anyone WANT to speak Latin. What was the point? We gleefully swapped anecdotes …
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Perseus: Puer Ex Seripho
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